ELC - Civil War Hospital Reenactment
Our twin spires on Church Street were 150 years old in 2004. It was a milestone birthday year for the sanctuary so we decided to recognize this by recreating the scene and feeling from those days during the Civil War when Evangelical Lutheran Church became a hospital for three months during the Battle of Antietam. On Saturday, October 8 and Sunday October 9, we went back in time to watch and to worship. Scattered throughout the sanctuary were voices and faces from the past. We encountered wounded soldiers lying in authentic Civil War hospital beds. We met and spoke with surgeons and nurses who explained what the care was like.
Pastors and parishioners from ELC who worked diligently to bring healing to the wounded and dying back in 1862 and 1863 explained to us this special chapter in the life of the sanctuary and our congregation.
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